Coalfields Community Investment Programme (CCIP) – Funding Support – for Farnworth and Kearsley

The Coalfields Community Investment Programme (England) is open to projects that deliver in the top 30% most deprived coalfield communities and that will make a positive difference in addressing the following themes:

Skills: Growing the skills of people in order to increase their opportunities.

Employment: Developing pathways to increase the number of people in work.

Health: Supporting projects that increase participation in activities/services that improve the health and wellbeing of people in former coalfield communities.

Grant amount: Up to £10,000 with a maximum of £2000 for capital items.

Community Groups, teams or businesses are invited to host a one off event to inform people about how to reduce the chances of getting cancer in January 2018 and can receive a grant of up to £250 for a small event or £500 for a large event.

Aims/priorities: We’re seeking to reach two different lower socio-economic groups:

inactive people who are in employment. They will be ordinary people and families who sometimes, or often, struggle to make ends meet. They can find it hard to build physical activity into their lives, or feel being active isn’t for them

inactive people who are far less likely to have a steady income, or any income at all, and face more extreme disadvantage. They may also be facing other challenges, such as being at risk of offending or dealing with substance misuse.

Tesco Bags of Help Programme is funded from the proceeds of the 5p government carrier bag levy.

Each month, an in-store vote will determine which projects will be funded. Three local community projects will be voted on in Tesco stores each month across 200 regions throughout Great Britain. In each region, the project that received the most votes from all stores in their region will receive a grant of up to £5,000. The second placed project receives up to £2,000 and third placed up to £1,000. Every year, over 7,000 projects will receive funding through this scheme.

The funding is for projects which deliver improvements to the physical environment and/or encourage the use and long term stability of outdoor spaces. This could be parks, nature reserves, community gardens, school fields or sports pitches amongst others.

The St James’s Place Foundation Small Grants Programme is available to smaller UK Registered Charities working nationally, regionally or locally in the UK with an annual income of up to £750,000. The amount applied for should be up to a maximum of £10,000 in any two-year rolling period. All supported projects will fit into one of the following themes:

One Stop Stores –Carriers for Causes
Grants of up to £1,000 are available for projects that benefit local communities within two miles of a One Stop Store. The Bolton store is on Minerva Road and projects in Farnworth, Great Lever, Harper Green and Rumworth and some parts of neighbouring wards would be eligible.

Funding will be considered for work with young people, older people, promoting physical activity, improving health and wellbeing, increasing community safety and protecting or improving the local environment.